Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the Protestant sects hold conventions. Lately, and especially last week, this great fissure within the sects has been dwarfed in churchmen's minds by the larger idea of uniting the sects themselves. But last week there were two typical survivals of Fundamentalism v. Modernism, and a notable comment thereanent...
...indicate. The CRIMSON of course has no pretension of passing an esthetic judgement on the Sargent murals, but the weight of opinion from such critics as Walter Pach quoted in these columns earlier in the year, coupled with the extreme reluctance of nearly all the Fine Arts department to comment officially on the paintings should justify the recent stand of this paper on the artistic phases of the controversy...
...difficulty in finding anyone who can explain the hidden symbolism of the paintings prevents perhaps any indefensible comment upon the emotional result of careful attention to these decorations. The fact, however, that the recumbent figure in the left hand picture wears a helmet strikingly like that of a German infantryman and that standing over him there is an obvious Yankee doughboy clutching Victory and Death lends color to the theory that the natural effect should be one of intense sympathy for the American and something very like hatred for his slayer...
Great was the Belgian Ambassador's perturbation. Washington society gasped at the ferocity of the Post's attack. The Diplomatic Corps was loyally unanimous in its explanation of what lay behind the Post's report and comment. Chorused the diplomatists (in effect...
...free press by means that range from secret bribery of newspaper employes to outright purchase of newspapers themselves." Said the New York Times: "The whole foundation of honest journalism is laid on the principle that newspaper ownership should have no interest save in publishing facts and making fair editorial comment on them. Ownership that has a financial interest in the public domain, over which there is steady controversy between private operation and the Government, has never proved effective in the manufacture of a disinterested or reliable newspaper. The fact that such type of ownership is usually concealed as long...